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Brian Magee spent a long time getting to the top, but his reign as a world
champion turned out to be painfully short.

The Northern Irishman was handed the WBA super-middleweight title only six
weeks ago, having previously been interim champion, but he was stopped 24
seconds into the third round by Mikkel Kessler in Herning, Denmark, on
Saturday night.

It was Kessler’s body punching that did for Magee. A vicious right to the
solar plexus dropped him midway through the second, the first of three times
he visited the canvas, all from rights to the body.